I am Panos, I live in Athens, Greece, I am married and I am the proud father of two kids, a son and a daughter. In actuality, my daughter is the reason why I vanished last time. A baby is in many ways a very demanding presence in a household and even though my wife and I had a pretty good training with our son, there were still a couple of lessons to be learned.
Parenting is the most difficult thing I have done in my life, which to some extent means that my life so far has been quite boring. I admit it, shooting pool and riding bikes does not amount to a charismatic, well qualified man and a big chunk of my life was misspent. Having said that, I have a first degree in Mathematics and an MSc in Operational Research – the best years of my life really.
I am basically interested in discussing, which is a surprisingly difficult thing to do, even through a forum where everybody has the advantage of time and distance on their side. In a forum, you have all the time in the world to think of your response and in addition you don’t get any negative interference from an aggressive tone, an insulting face or just the heat of the moment of a live discussion.
I am genuinely interested in parental philosophy – whatever that is – but I am not sure how to conduct it within Philosophy now. I am a member of a greek parents forum but everybody there is accusing me of being too theoretical – even though they failed to explain to me what they mean by this in numerous occasions. So here I am really, between two worlds: too philosophical for parents and too parental for philosophers? We’ll see.
Whoever engages with me into conversation, I thank him first of all and second I beg his patience as my time is limited and there are very few and short windows of opportunity within my day to write in the forum. I will write, there is no question about that, but it might take me a day or two or three
Panos
P.S. The signature is a present from a very special jap psychologist. Don't you just love it?
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